Story #2Captain America and Ivan the Terrible
Writer: Jack Kirby. Writer: Joe Simon. Penciler: Jack Kirby. Inker: Jack Kirby. Inker: Joe Simon.
Synopsis
In
Siberia,
Ivan the Terrible, King of the Tartars, rules with an iron hand. One of his prisoners is
Betty Ross, daughter of the rightful king; he has her thrown in the dungeon. Two more prisoners are
Captain America and
Bucky who insult him to his face; when Ivan attacks Cap with a knife the hero punches him in the eye. Ivan orders them tossed in the dungeon too. They easily escape and find Betty’s father, the exiled king. Bringing Betty and her dad to the castle, Cap and Bucky enter, beat up Ivan the Terrible and force him to abdicate in favor of
King Peter. Cap and Bucky are heroes—and at this point Bucky wakes up from his dream.
Story #3The Case of the Fake Money Fiends
Writer: Jack Kirby. Writer: Joe Simon. Penciler: Jack Kirby. Penciler: Joe Simon. Inker: Joe Simon.
Synopsis
Steve and Bucky hear tales of a haunted house in Hillsdale so as
Captain America and
Bucky they go to investigate. Entering the house they are menaced by ghosts who turn out to be men in sheets. Going down to the cellar they find a counterfeiters’ operation with
Betty Ross a prisoner. Cap and Bucky shut it down but Betty tells them the mastermind is at another one of their hideouts. Cap goes undercover as a visiting farmer and when a shady character passes him a fake bill he follows the man to the hideout where Cap and Bucky again swing into action and this time capture the leader too.
Story #4Horror Hospital
Writer: Jack Kirby. Writer: Joe Simon. Penciler: Jack Kirby. Penciler: Joe Simon. Inker: Joe Simon.
Synopsis
When
Bucky is struck on the head during an encounter with robbers,
Captain America hurriedly changes them into their army uniforms and asks a cabbie to take them to the nearest hospital. The hospital turns out to be a remote private hospital run by the creepy
Doctor Grimm. Steve leaves Bucky overnight but in the night, the new nurse disappears and Bucky sees a deformed weirdo wandering the halls. Dr. Grimm assures him
Igan is harmless and denies hearing the nurse scream. Bucky writes a message detailing his suspicions to Cap but is caught; Grimm mails the note anyway and sets a trap for the hero. When Cap breaks in he is attacked by Igan, who fills the room with water. Cap burst out only to be taken at gunpoint by Grimm. The mad doctor explains how his hospital is a means of finding victims whose blood is drained to feed his experiment
Gorro. When
Betty Ross arrives to apply for the nurse position she is captured too. When Cap sees Bucky about to be sacrificed he goes into a rage, punches out Dr Grimm and frees Bucky and Betty. Grimm frees Gorro which turns out to be a huge ape-like monster. Cap holds it off until Bucky shoots it in the face. After a battle with Cap, Grimm plunges to his death from a high balcony.
Story #5Captain America and the Bomb Sight Thieves
Writer: Stan Lee.
Synopsis
One evening,
Bucky Barnes is on his way to a meeting of the
Sentinels of Liberty boys’ club. He doesn’t know he is being followed by two crooks,
Monk and
One-Eye, who are planning to crash the meeting so they can break through the clubhouse wall into
Prof. Colby’s lab next door. There they will steal the Professor’s new bomb sight and sell it to a foreign power. The hoods don’t reckon on one thing, though:
Steve Rogers is a guest of the club that evening. As Monk heads into the lab, Steve punches out One-Eye and returns as
Captain America. The kids chase Monk back into the clubhouse where Cap takes care of him too. The crooks are delivered to the police and Steve encourages the boys to try their best to do their duty.
Story #6The Ogre of the Cave-Dwellers
Writer: Jack Kirby. Writer: Joe Simon. Penciler: Reed Crandall. Inker: Reed Crandall.
Synopsis
As
Tuk the Caveboy and his companion
Tanir continue on their quest they encounter a tribe of cave-dwellers who are fleeing from the evil
Bonzo the Brute and his band of marauders. When one of the cave-dwellers who has stayed behind to protect his wife and newborn fights the gang, he is killed. Tanir slays a villain with an arrow to stop him from harming the woman and Tuk helps her and the baby to escape. As Tanir spies on them he is captured and forced to join the marauders or die. Pretending to hunt down Tuk, Tanir explains to his companion that he is infiltrating the gang in order to end Bonzo’s reign. He then returns to the gang as a (nearly) trusted member….
Story #7The Pirate and the Sinking Ships
Writer: Jack Kirby. Writer: Joe Simon. Penciler: Reed Crandall. Inker: Reed Crandall.
Synopsis
In the sixteenth century, pirate
Old John Cruthers was exiled to a remote Pacific island; to gain revenge he formed the island’s natives into a horde of deadly buccaneers. Today their descendants are preying on America shipping near Hawaii. The
Hurricane learns of this and heads out to the islands to put an end to their reign of terror. He comes upon them assaulting a liner and chases them to their ship and then raises a storm to blow them back to their island base. He meets them there and calls up an even greater storm to sink the island and send the pirates to
Hades, where
Pluto will give them a warm reception.